Employment
Director, Hampshire Sculpture Trust 2000- 2002
Public Art Co-ordinator, Brighton and Hove Council, 2000 - 2001
Commissioning Officer, South East Arts 1997 - 2000
Crafts Officer, South East Arts 1994 - 1997
Healthcare Arts, London, Acting Crafts Co-ordinator, 1994 - 5
Business Development Officer, Crafts Council, London, 1984 - 1989
Assistant Manager, Crafts Council Shop at the V&A, London, 1989 - 1994

Qualifications
MA in Art History, Birkbeck College, London University, 1996
BA Arts, Open University, 1992

Short Courses
‘Public Art and the Planning Process’, and ‘Public Art Evaluation’, run by Ixia, 2007
‘Legal and Business Frameworks for Public Art’, run by Public Art South West, 2006

Advisory Work
Commissions Advisor for Axis the online resource for contemporary art, 2005 - present
Executive Committee Member of Public Art Forum (now Ixia), 1999 - 2002

Consultancy (selected)
Public Art Advisor, West Sussex County Council, 2004 – present
Public Art Advisor, Crawley Borough Council, 2000 – 2007
East Sussex Arts Partnership: public art consultancy, 2003 - 06
A Public Art Strategy for Woking for Woking Borough Council, 2007 (on behalf of Artpoint).
Arts for Health – Hastings: a study to examine creative arts projects to support community arts and health in Hastings and St Leonards, with ASAssociates, 2000-1

Project Management (selected)
Crawley Art and Architecture Programme: new art commissions at Thomas Bennett Community Colllege and Ifield Community College, Crawley, 2007.

10/9 project with photographer Neville Gabie and poet Ros Barber, 2007

K2 Crawley, W Sussex: commissions by Laura Johnston, David Watson and Sharon Elphick, 2005 – 6
A series of commissions in Crawley, 2000 – 07: residency and new work for law practice Rawlison Butler by photographer Magali Nougarede. 2007; roundabout sculptures by Gordon Young and Gary Breeze; Amanda Randall, sculpture for new Asda store, 2003.

Four Shores: art works for the Isle of Sheppey, 2005.

Heart of Reeds, by Chris Drury for Lewes, E Sussex, opened June 2005.

Arts and Regeneration programme: public art commissions along the seafronts and in the town centres of Littlehampton and Bognor Regis, lead artist Gordon Young, 2005-6.

Chalk Stones on the South Downs and Moonlit Path in Petworth Park: two new commissions by Andy Goldsworthy in W Sussex, 2002.

First phase of Leading the Way, a three year arts programme to enhance the new PF1 Gloucestershire Royal Hospital through a series of integrated commissions, for Willis Newson.

Project Co-ordinator: craft commissions for refurbished Hove Museum and Art Gallery.

Evaluation
Evaluation of ‘up the road and round the corner’ for ONE TWO ONE art and architecture network, Hastings, 2007
through the surface collaborating textile artists from Britain and Japan, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, 2003

Writing/Editing (selected)
Up in the Air, Mur Island, Electric Wharf and Young Vic case studies for Public Art On Line.

Design Standards: Art within the Public Realm, for West Sussex Design Commission, 2007.

Art in Public Places: public art initiatives and artists’ commissions in East Sussex and Art in Public Places: advice and commissioning guidelines, for the East Sussex Arts Partnership, 2006.

Catherine Bertola: Prickings, Fabrica, 2006

Mah Rana, Jewellery is Life, 2003

Heart of Reeds: a land drawing by Chris Drury, June 2000

Biographies of 30 craftspeople for the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham.

Editor for web database of Crafts Study Centre’s permanent collection of 3,500 objects.

Lectures/Conferences/Presentations
Heart of Reeds: a case study at the ‘Public Art? What for? Who for?’ Conference, School of Art & Design, University of Ulster, May 2007

Chair of a series of three seminars Making it Happen at University of Portsmouth, Museum of Reading and The Anvil, Basingstoke, for The Making.

‘Negotiating Public Art Commissions’, seminars for visual artists, part of eta’s Artists Professional Development Training Programme, 2003-6.

Art in the Public Realm and Curating the Crafts lectures, Royal College of Art, London, 2005.

Jewellery is Life, new work by Mah Rana: paper at the ‘Locate and Classify: New approaches to curating the crafts’ conference, Newcastle University, Sept 2003

Have you ever dreamt that your teeth have fallen out?: paper at the Consuming Crafts Conference, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, May 2002

Curating
Prickings, new work by Catherine Bertola, Fabrica, 2006 and touring.

Jewellery is Life, new jewellery by Mah Rana for Fabrica, Brighton, 2002

After Caro, Thebes Gallery, Lewes

Research/Curatorial Trips
Documenta12, Kassel, Germany, 2007; Documenta11, Kassel, Germany, 2002

Munster Sculpture Project, Germany, 2007

Venice Biennale, Dreams and Conflicts, 2003, Venice Biennale (Architecture), 2006

Snow Show, Kemi and Rovaniemi, Finland, 2004

Contemporary Crafts Curators Research Visit to Japan, March/April 2003.

through the surface collaborating textile artists from Britain and Japan opening at Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, followed by research trip to the Art House Project and Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, 2005.